To be fair, CCP quietly put chat bubbles and agency changes up on SISI without a dev blog too. /rabblerabblerabble
Just FYI - all AF already have the 50% MWD sig reduction. That isn’t something “new”. Nor do they step on inty toes because of it. Even with the speed changes.
At first I was kind of excited by the Jag changes. Was not expecting missile boat! But after thinking and playing with fits I am really dissappointed. Losing a low, and not gaining enough fitting room or cap, puts the kibosh on any fit that I would want to fly over…well almost anything.
I can’t for the life of me reason out why they changed the retri bonus. I guess someone convinced the devs that the retri is oppressive. Ishkur having its drone bay bonus being incorporated into the hull is good…although I wish a damage bonus had been added (less 1 gun) instead of tracking. Without factoring in the new ADC, I can’t really see AF seeing a large uptick in anything but the niches they are already used in.
WRT the ADC, I am skeptical that such a module can ever be anything but either op or useless (meant as inclusive disjunction). Given that, either the ADC will be useless and AFs will still be pretty bland choices OR the ADC will be broken and AF’s will enjoy a moment of cancer status.
Hopefully I am wrong.